DETAILS. 105 hands ; little beasts always full of go, whether they got their rations or not, having a capacity for going without water for an extraordinary length of time ; no English horse could have gone through the time they had during the next week with any chance of life ; yet they seemed to thrive on desert air and crumbly dry grass. All the rest of the force (with the exception of the natives, who walked) were mounted on camels gunners, blue-jackets and all. I forgot to mention that Colonel Burnaby arrived with a convoy of grain, just in time to come on with us, but the grain was mostly left at Gakdul and the camels impressed for carrying stores and rations. Only sufficient corn was brought on to allow of two feeds per camel of eight pounds each ; the fact was that the authorities had stopped buying camels on the Nile, and two camels were made to do the work of three ; consequently there were not enough to carry grain for the force, and the camels had to sustain themselves on mimosa shoots and long, dry yellow grass, a hundredweight of which would barely produce a pound of nourishment.

The Naval Division under Lord C. Beresford,